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• 15 sep 2016

  Kalamazoo

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Walruses, Whales and Narwhals

  Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500

  In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the Islamic world and even the Far East. This session at the 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the National Museum of Scotland, aims to address the variety of questions posed by the maritime ivories: how the raw material was collected, how it was traded, the workshops that carved them and their specific symbolic value in medieval treasuries

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• 31 mai 2016

  Cerisy-la-Salle

  Call for papers - History

  Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas Imagination, knowledge, exploitation, from Antiquity to 1600

  The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic), from antiquity to 1600. The colloquium is based on three themes: knowledge and the transmission of knowledge (medical knowledge, zoological knowledge, descriptions, identifications); savoir-faire and exploitation (aquatic farming, fishing, cooking, medicine); explorations – real and imaginary.

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• 09 mai 2016

  10 mai 2016

  Ariano Irpino

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  The historiography of the Norman worlds (17th-21st centuries)

  Construction, influence, evolution

  The gathering organised at Ariano Irpino will examine in particular the historiographical constructions developed since the 17th century by looking at the place of the "Normans" in the "national story" of each country. It will also evaluate their influence on our knowledge of the history of the Norman worlds. What axioms have influenced the historiographical debates? Beyond their identification and classification, it is also important to understand their genealogy, their implications, their pervasiveness, their rejection and their deconstruction. The colloquium will also look to explore the orientation of a history of the Norman worlds developed from questions that go beyond national boundaries, schools and academic traditions.

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• 07 jan 2016

  Paris

  Study days - Middle Ages

  Emblems and broaches: objects that travel

  Musée de Cluny – Institut national d'histoire de l'art joint program: Medieval artefacts

  Le domaine médiéval de l’Institut national d'histoire de l'art, en partenariat avec le Musée de Cluny, porte un programme de journées d’étude bisannuelles dédiées à la place de l’objet dans les usages et dans les modèles de représentation médiévaux. Chacune de ces journées propose à des archéologues, historiens de l'art, historiens et historiens de la littérature de se rencontrer autour d’un type d’artefact qui sert de thème fédérateur.

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